Title | American Rust |
Year of Publication | 2021 |
Publication Type | Television Script |
Number of Pages or Episodes | 9 episodes |
Language | English |
Authors | Futterman, Dan |
Keywords | Black Americans; correction officers; drug overdoses; football; homosexuality; Korean Americans; labor unions; Latino/Latina/Latinx Americans; Mexican Americans; mill towns; NLRB; police; prisoners; sex workers; weddings |
Abstract | A small screen adaptation of the 2009 novel set in Buell, Fayette County, a fictitious, depressed Rust Belt town. Police chief Del Harris (Jeff Daniels) courts Grace Poe (Maura Tierney), a divorced seamstress, while a murder investigation leads Harris to Poe's son, Billy (Alex Neustaedter). |
Notes | Based on the novel by Philipp Meyer (1974— ). |
Author Biography | Dan Futterman (1967- ), born in Silver Spring, Maryland and educated at Columbia University, is an actor, screenwriter, and producer. |
Time | 2020s |
Published | unpublished |